Homer: Iliad II, Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library, #171)

10 best books like Homer: Iliad II, Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library, #171) (Homer): The Republic, Ethics, Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy), De Anima (On the Soul), Phaedo, The Way Things are, Авиатор, Meno, The Laws of Plato, Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica

The Republic
AuthorPlato
ISBN0140449140
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge?...
Ethics
AuthorBaruch Spinoza
ISBN0140435719
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work - an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an ethical life. Following a logical step-by-step format, it defines...
Critique of Practical Reason (Texts in the History of Philosophy)
AuthorImmanuel Kant
ISBN0521599628
This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition, prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar...
De Anima (On the Soul)
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0140444718
'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know its nature and substance'

For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that...
Phaedo
AuthorPlato
ISBN0192839535
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...
The Way Things are
AuthorLucretius
ALL MATTER?
NEVER MIND!
-Bertrand Russell’s Grandmother
(Mocking his Materialist Philosophy)

When I was in my late teens I had a stunning Lucretian prise de conscience that utterly knocked the wind out of my youthful sails. It seemed the overwhelming answer to Eliot’s...
Авиатор
AuthorEugene Vodolazkin
Евгений Водолазкин - прозаик, филолог. Автор. В России его называют "русским Умберто Эко", в Америке - после выхода "Лавра" на английском - "русским Маркесом"....
Meno
AuthorPlato
ISBN0915144247
Is virtue the same for different people?
Yes, if ‘virtue’ consists in realising the destiny laid out for one before birth by the Self.
That is ‘what’ is the same about it in all people.

The famous ‘ignorance’ argument is laid out by Meno: ‘Those who think bad things benefit...
The Laws of Plato
AuthorPlato
ISBN0226671100
The Laws, Plato's longest dialogue, has for centuries been recognized as the most comprehensive exposition of the practical consequences of his philosophy, a necessary corrective to the more visionary and utopian Republic. In this animated encounter between a foreign philosopher and a powerful...
AuthorHorace
ISBN0674992148
In the two books of "Satires" Horace is a moderate social critic and commentator; the two books of "Epistles" are more intimate and polished, the second book being literary criticism as is also the "Ars Poetica." The "Epodes" in various (mostly iambic) metres are akin to the 'discourses' (as Horace...
AuthorPetronius
ISBN0140444890
Perhaps the strangest and most strikingly modern work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous...
AuthorVirgil
ISBN0674995864
Virgil, Volume Ii : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64) Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life....
AuthorOvid
ISBN0674990463
The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus. Comprising fifteen books and over 250 myths, the poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Julius Caesar within a loose mythico-historical framework.

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Lysis/Symposium/Gorgias
AuthorPlato
ISBN0674991842
Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BCE. An admirer of Socrates in early manhood, he later founded the school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt &...
Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus.
AuthorPlato
ISBN0674990404
Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he...
Hippolytus
AuthorEuripides
ISBN0929524101
Two book set: individual Commentary and Text. Bryn Mawr Commentaries have been admired and used by Greek and Latin teachers at every level for twenty years. They provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts...
The Unexpected Guest
AuthorCharles Osborne
ISBN0312975120
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time with her works outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. She is regarded by generations of fans as the greatest mystery writer ever, and her novels are read and cherished the world over.

A thriller as well as a puzzler set in a foggy...
Heresies of the High Middle Ages
AuthorWalter L. Wakefield
ISBN0231096321
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